Death
Sullivan had been close to blind for almost all of her life, but by 1935, she became completely blind. She died on October 20th, 1936 at the age 70 in Forest Hills, New York after being in a coma. Sullivan passed with Keller holding her hand. When Keller herself died in 1968, her ashes were placed in the Washington National Cathedral next to Anne's.
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“People named John and Mary never divorce. For better or for worse, in madness and in saneness, they seem bound together for eternity by their rudimentary nomenclature. They may loathe and despise one another, quarrel, weep, and commit mayhem, but they are not free to divorce. Tom, Dick, and Harry can go to Reno on a whim, but nothing short of death can separate John and Mary.”
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“Sinks to the deep abyss where Satan crawls
Where horrid Death and Despair lies.”
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—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)